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Wikipedia Had No Idea YouTube Was Going To Use It To Fact-Check Conspiracy Theories (gizmodo.com)
Yesterday, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced that the company would drop a Wikipedia link beneath videos on highly contested topics. We have now learned that Wikipedia did not know about this move prior to the announcement. Gizmodo reports: In a Twitter thread asking the public to support Wikipedia as much as it relies on it, Wikimedia executive director Katherine Maher first suggested that the organization was unaware of YouTube's plans. When asked whether this new module would only apply to English Wikipedia pages, Maher responded, "I couldn't say; this was something they did independent of us." In a statement to Gizmodo, the Wikimedia Foundation confirmed that the organization first learned of the new YouTube feature on Tuesday. "We are always happy to see people, companies, and organizations recognize Wikipedia's value as a repository of free knowledge," a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson said in a statement. "In this case, neither Wikipedia nor the Wikimedia Foundation are part of a formal partnership with YouTube. We were not given advance notice of this announcement."
Idiots at YouTube using the Idiots at Wikipedia to Fact check things, who are undoubtedly using references to YouTube.
It's a Self Referencing Circle Jerk.
Wiki's editorial staff are well known to be biased, group-think, and agenda-driven - some of the wars are legendary.
Wiki is not accepted as a scholarly or reputable source in any reputable academic institution.
As a basic source of information for non-scholastic arguments, I suppose its better than nothing.
In the past we had to worry about ads pushing malware.
Now political activist US brands want to push their side of US party politics onto your browser?
Time for a script that blocks US party political big brand alterations of your search results.
The ads go blocked.
The party political propaganda as results can be blocked too.
Just say no to big brand activists pushing their partisan political results all over your browser.
It is time to take back our browsers- and make the Internet great again.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Nope, but you're SUPER DUPER WRONG, assholio.
People like to ignore the fact that Russia played both side in the presidential race. They wanted to create chaos and they did a good job. There is still more evidence of hillary rigging the election then there is of Donald Trump. Let's not forgot the also sold uranium mines to Russia.